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Ukraine’s defences under strain as war enters its third year

February 24, 2024

Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb 24 looking more vulnerable than at any time since the early days of Europe’s most deadly conflict since World War Two.

Low water levels on Danube reveal sunken WW2 German warships

August 19, 2022

Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo.

U.S. Congress revives World War Two-era "Lend-Lease" program for Ukraine

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed legislation on Thursday (April 28) that will make it easier to export military equipment to Ukraine, reviving the "Lend-Lease Act" that helped defeat Hitler during World War Two.

Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state and feminist icon, dies at 84

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop-culture feminist icon, died on March 23 at the age of 84, her family said.

US must rein in revisionist Abe government

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific on September 2, US President Barack Obama touted the relationship between the United States and Japan over the past 70 years as a model of the power of reconciliation.

Want the truth of World War Two? Don't ask Japan

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015

Imagine a German government beholden to Holocaust deniers, one that omits its Nazi legacy from textbooks, has never apologised to its war victims and annually sends its leader on pilgrimage to a National Socialist shrine